Example sentences of "but had little [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Widows ' and orphans ' pensions were not greeted with enthusiasm outside women 's organizations , who supported them but had little influence . |
| 2 | The current was starting to tip the canoe over and I began to panic as the boat was filling up rapidly and I tried my best to bail it out with my hands but had little success . |
| 3 | Culley felt the anger , but had little idea what he might do about it . |
| 4 | A university steeped in classical , historical , and literary traditions was not unfriendly to science but had little awareness of the growing cost of high level scientific research , and even , perhaps , in some quarters reservations about its importance . |
| 5 | A Tokyo conference in November 1943 of leaders from nominally independent Southeast Asian countries was supposed to strengthen solidarity and cooperation , but had little impact either in Japan or in Southeast Asia itself . |
| 6 | An accomplished pianist , she also had great histrionic gifts , but had little time to pursue these interests in later years . |
| 7 | Britain 's first application was tabled in august , just after the Kuwait crisis , but had little effect on Defence policy at the time , because negotiations were relatively short-lived . |
| 8 | The Presbyterians drifted into Unitarianism whose rational approach attracted the ministers and the merchants but had little appeal to the poor ; there was no ‘ enthusiasm ’ about it . |